§ Mr. Bruce-Gardyneasked the Secretary of State for Industry what is the aggregate cost to public funds of financial assistance granted or promised to Hoffman la Roche for the extension of its plant at Dairy, Ayrshire; what form this assistance takes; and what the 658W aggregate cost will be for each of the 450 permanent jobs expected to be created thereby.
§ Mr. David MitchellAssistance of £18 million was offered under section 8 of the Industry Act in October 1978 and an estimated £27.6 million of regional development grants will be paid. Since neither section 8 assistance nor regional development grants are directly limited to job creation a cost-per-job figure would be misleading: however, the arithmetical division of the estimate total amount of grants by the number of jobs comes to £100,000.